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I know techy types who like technological solutions and probably felt they benefited from using such drugs are overrepresented on this site, but did no one else register the defeatist, victimhood justifications for using the drugs?

Trying to solve a social problem with technology misses the point. I highlight these two quotes:

From the article: “I don’t have a whole lot of choice,” said Dr. Anderson, a pediatrician for many poor families in Cherokee County, north of Atlanta. “We’ve decided as a society that it’s too expensive to modify the kid’s environment. So we have to modify the kid.”

We have to modify the kid???

Also from the article: “We are effectively forcing local community psychiatrists to use the only tool at their disposal, which is psychotropic medications.”

the only tool???

Modifying human beings because we have no alternative? If you ask me, the side effects of this approach are not just the potential side effects of the drug on the individual, but complacency in not addressing the problems' causes, creating dependency of a social class on a drug, teaching children to take drugs to solve problems, creating a belief we have no alternatives, perpetuating a system that bores children and punishing them for their boredom, and so on.

Does nobody else wonder what other unintended consequences such a policy might create, independent of the drugs' safety or not?
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If someone goes through school and university on these pills that would be what 8-12 years on speed? They are not to be envied.

And 18 hour work days take a toll on you regardless of whether you are taking pills or not. It is more dangerous if you are taking pills because then you do not notice the effect on your body.
The domain where this is hosted would get added to the blacklist pretty quickly too.
From what I can tell #2 doesn't seem to be working in my case.

You can see my survey at https://www.google.com/insights/consumersurveys/view?survey=...
This is actually pretty interesting. Some of the performance benefits of C (known types, little and predictable allocation) without its total lack of any safety. Syntax still sucks, but not much can be done about that while still looking like JS.

On the other hand, any runtime that infers structure (like V8 or PyPy) will make most of the performance benefits moot, leaving only predictable allocation (fewer and shorter GC pauses).
this keeps crashing my golden oldy iOS device. it must be webkit since others are getting chrome crashes too.
The Linux Programming Interface by Kerrisk has pretty thorough coverage of sockets (and everything else).

http://www.amazon.com/The-Linux-Programming-Interface-Handbo...
This is a one of a kind landing page; simply explains the problem and solution but does so in an incredibly novel, succinct and eye-catching way with a perfect call to action button targeted at investors.

Extremely well done!
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Try it using an IPv6 address ;)
Is U.S. Economic Growth Over? Faltering Innovation Confronts the Six Headwinds
No, he's talking about total effective taxes in France. That includes things such as VAT.

Basically, the lower classes pay around 40% taxes (compared to their income). The middle class pay around 50%. Rich people pay around 30%, and the riches pay even much less (percentage wise). Apparently, wealthy people are better at exploiting loopholes in our tax system.
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I like this a lot, but just to ask, how do you plan on solving the critical mass problem?

Why should I use your service if none of my friends are?
Seems like an interesting article, sad that it is behind a paywall.
To be fair, they spent a lot of time, beside the main Genome project, to build and try out interfaces to showcase artworks, which has always suffered a poor UX. It was in closed beta, though, but I had the chance to see their progress on this side and I can tell it is pretty amazing.
Same here. Crashes for Windows 7 Chrome Version 22.0.1229.92 m
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> It was none of those things.

It was, and still is. It chides Eich for not including a blurb about something which has little to no relation with the presentation itself (the presentation's core was not javascript runtime performances or even javascript runtimes in general), and claims "disrespect" over that non-inclusion, all the while — as other commenters also noted — getting most if not all of its assertions wrong.
> Clearly, he's falling from a different altitude than a rocket, and starting from 0, but what are the actual numbers like?

Without an atmosphere, the result would be deterministic and trivial to compute:

acceleration = f(t) = g

velocity = ∫ f(t) dt = g * t

position = ∫∫ f(t) dt = 1/2 g t^2

(The value of g changes slightly for this problem, in this altitude domain.)

But because of the atmosphere, the calculation of velocity as a function of altitude is much more difficult. And it turns out that the atmospheric pressure as a function of altitude is not trivially characterized. And at high altitudes, it's not even constant -- it depends on temperature, the position of the sun in the sky, even the time in the 11-year sunspot cycle.

The air resistance of a falling object is some constant k (based on the object's size and surface roughness) times the square of the velocity times the air pressure. But the air pressure is changing as the descent unfolds, so such a computation ultimately relies on a numerical solution to a differential equation.

This is why one doesn't see a trivial equation describing descent velocity for a skydiver. I have worked out skydiver velocity profiles for constant air pressure nearer the surface:

http://arachnoid.com/sage/terminal_velocity.html

But this equation, only an approximation at lower altitudes, is of no use at all for a problem like the Baumgartner jump.
Lazcano's death would mark a huge victory for Mexican law enforcement

Won't someone else just step up and take the void?
Gentoo doesn't have a fixation on vanilla packages. In fact it's quite common to see multiple patches going aside your average ebuild.

The combination of USE flags / CFLAGS / LDFLAGS that make sense for individual users is so high that maintaining binary repos doesn't seem feasible.
Moving on to the Android app seems like a mistake.
Maybe a little off topic:

Red Bull's marketing is impeccable. They started out with all the actionsport athletes and moved upstream to more mainstream, and I guess, more expensive sports (two Formula 1 teams, more soccer teams than I can count), while still doing these crazy things. From Parcours in Santorini, to Air Races all over the world. Seems like every crazy sporting event is sponsored by Red Bull.

I think these have allowed them to be still seen as "hip" and not just selling sugar water like Coca Cola.
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Although I'm not sure what the air-quotes around "diagnosed" are intended to mean, I suspect it's because you doubt it's a legitimate dysfunction?

Regardless, on your point about being diagnosed as an adult: I was diagnosed as having ADHD as an adult. It's not unheard of. The only reason I wasn't diagnosed as a teenager was that I wasn't hyperactive — just incredibly distractible — and I was smart enough that I performed "acceptably" in school. I've wondered, though, what I could have leveled-up to if I hadn't been fighting my distractibility.

Anyway, I was diagnosed at around age 30, was on meds (Wellbutrin) for about two years, and developed good skills and organizational techniques, so that I don't need the medication any longer. Ultimately, it wasn't the medication that taught me the skills; they just cleared my head and allowed me to develop them on the side.

If you genuinely think that you might have ADHD (specifically, ADHD-inattentive-type, like me), you'd do well to talk to a psychiatrist.
The $.50 off a chocolate bar may actually cost you money, since it will encourage you to buy the chocolate bar when you weren't planning on buying one at all. In fact worse than that, it may start a habbit of buying those chocolate bars.
Curious, what makes you think this?
Yes. Can you find it?
Not working for me in Chrome, works ok in Firefox. Could really do with a very basic guide on how to use the slideshow. Simplicity is good but this is bordering on frustrating and irritating.
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Cool. This leverages JIT compilers ability to generate fast code (at the expense of language expressiveness, for it obviously works well with static style code only).

I wonder what a "JavaScript JIT optimized C dialect" would be? Ie. what are the C mechanisms that are too expensive with today's JIT engines?
Why do you need investors if you have finished your app? Shouldn't you focus on trying to generate profit instead?
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I once sent a letter to Steve Jobs saying that the MacOS (and other operating systems) were susceptible to phishing by applications, which would simply present a dialog that looks very much like the System Security dialog, and thereby gain the user's root password.

The solution is to have an area where only the operating system can draw (and which cannot be screen-captured, the same way Apple currently does with DRM movies). In this area, the system would present to the user a phrase which the user selected when setting up their account. This would prevent phishing, as users would be trained to look for the phrase (and / or icon ... the reason you can't have an icon alone is because the phisher could get it right 1 out of N times).

Now, on the web there is a similar thing you can do! When someone places KEYBOARD FOCUS in your password box, and starts typing the correct password, you display the icon + phrase that you previously selected when setting up your account. If the phrase doesn't pop up or is different, you know you're being phished.

THIS is a great way to stop phishing on the web. Anyone impersonating you will not know what phrase to display. Only by starting to type the correct pass phrase will they get this information. On the other hand, they won't be able to place anything fake over the password input box and capture your input, because the phrase only appears when you type IN the password input box, which the attacker can't get to, thanks to the cross-domain security in browsers!
I find these 'sharing' apps (like FourSquare and this) fascinating because they are the complete opposite of what I want. I have no desire to tell people where I am or what I am doing.

For example, I feel that a sharing app that let's people know "Ah. John's not answering the phone because he's in the middle of a meeting with Mr F Barbaz" is the wrong way to deal with others. There's no need for people to have that information, and there's no need for me to explain to people why I am not answering. I am simply not available.

I wrote, somewhat tangentially, about the need for a new 'not available' social norm in a piece about long haul flights: http://blog.jgc.org/2010/06/archive-of-my-newstilt-stories.h...

To me these sharing status apps are a sign of an unhealthy idea that people are always available unless they come up with some good reason not to be. The only people who might actually need to know where I am because of some emergency are few in number (my parents, my spouse, my boss) and they can always SMS me a '911' text message.

PS None of that should be seen as a criticism of this person's app or work. There may be a large market for this which simply excludes me.

PPS It's worth thinking through what are the 'acceptable' reasons for not answering a call. In a meeting? On the toilet? Thinking? Writing code? Staring out the window letting your mind wander? And who makes that judgement. To me the simplest solution is to not answer when I don't want to and not be accountable to others for why I did not answer.
Completely agree with you, although I think it is more about the personal desire to learn than education in itself.

If you don't have the personal desire to learn in the first place, then I doubt that education can genuinely "teach" you this.

Where does this desire come from? It comes from within, so it can't be "taught" to most people who are unreceptive in the first place.

During my life of 27 years, I have met only a few other individuals with the same eagerness for self growth as I have, and hundreds of people who have no interest or concept of what self growth even means and dozens of additional people who are somewhere in between and use their social skills to manipulate other people instead of manipulating themselves to be better people.

Funny, funny world we live in!
Landingpages for verticals are already planned. Thanks.
Just a reminder of the guidelines posted at HN (http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html):

"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."

Please, keep the posts on topic.
Hard to capture in text, but at the time she said it very simply, no impatience or bite. It didn't come across as at all condescending or sugar-coated, to me at least.
Why you can't focus on a single idea
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This is nothing to do with me, but a friend of mine started the company.
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Seems like a pretty hefty generalization.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
Probably to provide the possibility of not drilling down into details so you can change the presentation based on the audience.
Don't editorialize the title. The title of the article is "Physicists extend special relativity beyond the speed of light"
More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4630348
How is JSON a benefit from a single number class? Python has integers and floats, yet JSON syntax is (almost) valid Python code, including the numbers.
Apologies. Did you mean this? http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/09...
> there's no need for me to explain to people why I am not answering.

To give them an idea of how long to wait before trying again. It's consideration for the time of others.
This isn't anything to do with me, but a friend of mine set up the company and has announced it today.
I was like this several years ago myself, the key is in being humble whilst still being argumentative without sounding like a wanker - it's possible!
And you need investors' money for... ?
You're already starting with a full list of contacts from your smartphone address book.
+Guys have prepared also some tweaks for distribution.
Interesting concept, but it seems there is no way of registering at the moment. Any invites available?
Space shuttle launch countdown, annotated
A typical low earth orbit re-entry speed is mach 25. Here with a max speed just above mach 1, there's 25²=625 times less energy to dissipate.
The decision not to patent can be a cause. But other accounts in this thread suggests that patenting or not would have had little influence in the environment in the Silicon Valley.
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>because there are plenty of people smarter than me who don't seem to have that problem.

They do have this problem. Since childhood they are surrounded by dumb and uninteresting people. Cynicism and distrust in the common sense of the fellow humans are already there by age of 12. But this is unproductive, and they make conscious effort to mingle, so they don't have to be alone all the time, have somebody to mate with, have playdates for their children, but it continues to be a struggle and sacrifice and they continue to stay intellectually alone.

There is a way out though - each typical step in society that is pre-programmed for smart people is also a filter - getting to school for gifted children, good university, then good, hard to get to, company, then changing it to better one filters out dumb people from your acquaintances and makes people around you nicer to talk to and easier to get along with. The downside is that they typically have not so stellar "emotional intelligence" as well, and, depending on occupation, there could be a gender bias (so mating within peer group could be problematic).
Thank you for speaking my mind, sir.
At first build a park, invite tons of people and then place a lemonade stand.
(if you'll place it too early you will screw your viral ratio)
Yatedo, le seul moteur de recherche de personne sémantique
I believe they're doing a gmail-style invitation system. I've played with the game, but I'm not a member either ...
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Most startups are too afraid to face the reality of a real business model.

"We will start making money in 6 months" is not good enough.
That's why we have voicemail. If I'm not available leave me a message.
To buy at least a couch
The article on phys.org is a summary of a paper published in Proc Royal Soc, the abstract for which is at [1]. The full paper is paywalled, and I believe that this is what @_of is referring to. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be a preprint on ArXive.

Edit: All articles since November 2010 seem to be paywalled.

[1] http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/09...
Amazing idea that I would definitely recommend to clients if it was multilingual. I could find anything on that in the faq (...;), what is the ETA on that?
He's working on the project as a consultant

"The record is currently held by Col. Joe Kittinger, who in 1960 jumped from 102,800 feet as part of a U.S. Air Force mission. On this attempt, 52 years later, Kittinger is a consultant and mentor.

He has also been giving Baumgartner advice on what to expect. For example, he described what it feels like to fall through space when there is so little air: "There's no way you can tell how fast you're going, because there's no visual cues."

But Kittinger rejects any suggestion that he is jealous that Baumgartner is poised to beat his record.

"Oh no. I'm delighted," he told CNN recently. "He's advancing science, and he'll do a great job."

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/09/us/skydiver-record-attempt/ind...
I think JS is in a unique position because of its availability in the browser. Sadly I can't see any good way to get languages I like into the browser.
Thanks for this, the link posted is more of a rant than a careful analysis of the french environment for start ups.
This reminds me of a major feature Chrome had when launched - to withstand a crash of any of the opened tabs. I thought it's a funny feature to have... other browsers just preferred not to crash in the first place. Then I tried Chrome and realized it was a great feature for them, because Chrome kept crashing all the time (back then).

What I wanted to say by this is that while it's a great thing for Falcon 9 to have fail-over in its maiden flights (as we could see yesterday), I wouldn't worry too much about "other rockets" not having this. Soyuz rockets are a great example (100% success rate for manned flights to ISS and over 97% success rate for all Soyuz rockets (that's since 1966)[1]).

1. my numbers are only from wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R-7_(rocket_family) and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Russian_manned_space_mi...
How the inert payment industry prevents me from being innovative in Europe
Everything about it looks like a render, the desk texture, the lighting of the white leads. Looks nice though.
> I always thought "controlled flight into terrain" was a good euphemism for "pilot error leading to crash".

Usually, but not always. The "controlled flight" part means the airplane wasn't either broken or outside its normal control envelope. The implication is that the crash resulted from something other than an inability to control the airplane. The usual assumption at that point is pilot error, but there are other possibilities -- malfunctioning navaids, bad charts, bad instructions from the ground such as incorrect headings or altimeter settings.

Once an airliner pilot asked for clearance into La Guardia in NYC involving a path that led across the downtown area after dark. He was given a flight level in meters but understood his assigned altitude to be in feet. He was flying between the buildings when the ATC and pilot sorted out their unit-of-measurement difficulties. The only reason ATC knew something was wrong was because the aircraft had an altitude-reporting transponder, or we might have had a 9/11 level catastrophe much earlier.

On that topic, in 1945 a B-25 flew into the Empire State Building in fog, something most people have long since forgotten:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-25_Empire_State_Building_cras...
Whatever you say, John Galt. Go it alone, you don't need those proles, and let us know how that treats you.
I don't see how that's different from everywhere else.
Have a read of his Excelsior I jump [0], the near fatal 60,000 foot jump that was the precursor to the 102,000 foot one. Incredible.

[0] http://stratocat.com.ar/artics/excelsior-e.htm
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Adding more taxis in New York City would slow service for everyone
Yep, no worries. We spoke in chat afterwards ;)
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As it should be, until the implementation settles and it's clear what interfaces should be standardized.

I believe Brendan Eich is suggesting that the preferred process is for a technology to be defined by a draft of a spec, and have multiple implementations' interfaces settle down before being standardized, rather than having one definitive implementation that unilaterally determines what is settled down and what isn't.

That seems quite reasonable to me, when such a thing is possible doesn't it sound like it would lead to a better spec for a better technology?

It's disappointing to continuously see this anti-NaCl propaganda from Mozilla.

Could you elaborate on all the anti-NaCl propaganda you're continuously seeing? Is it actually Mozilla's propaganda, or Brendan Eich's personal opinion? Personally, I thought that at least in these slides, he was quite balanced in presenting both the pros and the cons of a technology directly aimed at taking the spotlight from his baby (by being used instead of JS for high-performance browser games and stuff).
I could talk for hours about the times I've been legitimately unable to take a call and had people repeatedly call my desk/mobile phone and either (A) refuse to leave a voicemail, thinking calling back repeatedly for 20 minutes would work or (B) filled my voicemail to capacity with multiple messages throughout the day.

Hours.
Stupid move in an economy so (internally) open as EU. Companies will just move somewhere nearby, and the commies will suffer.
Probably better to gain traction on one platform first. If it is working out well you have found the recipe and it's likely to work on other plattforms as well. By adding other platforms you will multiply the userbase by 3 in the best case. Increasing the installed base on one plattform in an early stage will be more effective.
I just printed a super-mini version of 'one thing' for my home office - http://i.imgur.com/3oa6a.jpg (single founder edition) . Grab original here - http://heldfree.com/one-thing.png

The text shape can also easily be wrapped over a tall whiskey bottle :)